Miles to go for freedom : segregation & civil rights in the Jim Crow years, Linda Barrett Osborne

The Resource Miles to go for freedom : segregation & civil rights in the Jim Crow years, Linda Barrett Osborne

Miles to go for freedom : segregation & civil rights in the Jim Crow years, Linda Barrett Osborne

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Told through first-person accounts, photographs, and other primary sources, this book is an overview of racial segregation and early civil rights efforts in the United States from the 1890s to 1954, a period known as the Jim Crow years. Multiple perspectives are examined as the book looks at the impact of legal segregation and discrimination on the day-to-day life of black and white Americans across the country

Told through first-person accounts, photographs, and other primary sources, this book is an overview of racial segregation and early civil rights efforts in the United States from the 1890s to 1954, a period known as the Jim Crow years. Multiple perspectives are examined as the book looks at the impact of legal segregation and discrimination on the day-to-day life of black and white Americans across the country

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DLC

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1949-

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Osborne, Linda Barrett

Dewey number

305.896/073009041

Illustrations

illustrations

maps

Index

index present

Intended audience

Middle School

LC call number

E185.61

LC item number

.O827 2012

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Reading level

8.4.

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Library of Congress

Study program name

Accelerated Reader

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African Americans

African Americans

Civil rights movements

United States

African Americans

African Americans

Civil rights movements

United States

African Americans

African Americans

Civil rights movements

Race relations

United States

Civil rights movements

African Americans

United States

YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / African American

YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / History / United States / General

Target audience

juvenile

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Miles to go for freedom : segregation & civil rights in the Jim Crow years, Linda Barrett Osborne